Chapter 479: Hankou
Some things must be explained.
Li Laiheng is not afraid of revenge from the true Chongzhen bloodline of Yang Qilong! He is afraid of revenge from the reign of the King of Gui in Yongli! It's really a big deal
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Regarding this, there is no longer any revenge. For Li Laiheng, Yongli is too huge. All his troops will be digested in less than two years after joining. If the protagonist wants to revenge him, it may be enough to pinch his fingers.
As for Yang Qilong, no matter whether the other party is the real or fake prince, both parties are in a cooperative relationship. Li Laiheng can even eat Yang Qilong in one bite and cooperate with Yang Qilong. Li Laiheng will have more choices in the future. He can support Yang Qilong as the emperor. If he breaks apart, he can also bring his subordinates to create a Dashun Emperor.
People are afraid of revenge, not simply. It should be said that people are afraid of revenge from the strong. Yongli can take revenge on him, but Prince Zhu, hehe, I'm afraid even if I think about it, I don't have the strength.
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Xingshan County is located in the west of the lake, on the north side of Xiling Gorge of the Yangtze River, at the intersection of the Daba Mountain remnants and Wushan remnants. There are 3,580 large and small hills. It is no accident that the 13th Kuidong Army can survive here. There are mountains and ravines and ravines here, which is extremely difficult to destroy. In addition, the restoration of the Ming Dynasty forced the main force of the Qing army to turn around to defend the Ming army. Therefore, the strategy adopted by this group of "disrupting bandits" army was to encircle.
There was a Qianzhong Camp stationed at the exits of all mountain roads in the county. Hankou and Hanyang towns stationed another model of soldiers. The battalions blocked the exits into the mountains and could not attack them, and the thirteen troops in the mountains were not allowed to come out. Once any battalion was attacked, the flood police would come, and then the surrounding battalions came to rescue them. The troops and horses of Hankou and Hanyang towns could also arrive within one day, and they achieved the goal of trapping beasts. However, the Qing army could never imagine that these more than 300,000 residents did not starve to death and cultivated and pioneered the land in the mountains. They lived for ten years, but they still had self-sufficient.
At this moment, the Qianzhong Camp at the Xianfeng Pass was in silence. Qianzhong Wu Da stood anxiously at Yingkou and looked around. Several confidants followed him with a serious look on his face. As early as a year ago, Wu Da You secretly joined Yang Qilong's Zhongsanlang Xiangtang, and now he has accepted heavy bribes. His task is to welcome the Thirteen Army out of the mountain.
By midnight, the soldiers of the green camp in the barracks were already asleep. Wu Dayou deliberately transferred the personnel on patrols. Occasionally, the soldiers in the Xiaojie area were also ordered by Wu Dayou to come to the front camp.
As soon as Shandong was approaching, there was a sudden sound of rooster crowing. It was a quiet moment in the middle of the night. If it weren't for humans, there would never be rooster crowing. What's more, there were no villages nearby. In order to completely block Xingshan County, the Qing court had moved away all the villages and cleared an isolation belt around the mountains.
"Here you come." Wu Dayou rubbed his hands with excitement and ordered his confidant behind him to say, "Rise up the light."
"Zhe." The confidant immediately ran to the looking building without saying a word and started a lantern.
Then countless black shadows surged out of the mountains. Wu Dayou couldn't help but pull out his sword and yelled: "Brothers, you're against it."
"Kill." A roar of heaven and earth resounded throughout the night sky. The rebels from the mountain and Wu Dayouwei's headed a group of rebels formed a turbulent wave and rushed towards the camp without defense.
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The green camps at the foot of the mountain immediately felt the flames of the sky above Wu Dayou's camp in the southwest corner. Then the news came that the bandits army came out of the mountain, and Wu Dayou led his troops to rebel. After the bandits and the rebels broke through the camp, they immediately turned to the east and rushed to the east.
The original early warning system was delayed for two hours due to Wu Dayou's rebellion. When the battalions were about to pursue, a group of people suddenly appeared in the mountains. These people were Wang Guangxing's troops who were left behind in Xingshan. They sneaked into a large camp and immediately retreated back to the mountains with the purpose of restraining the Qing army so that they dare not act rashly.
The thousand generals of each battalion were indeed trapped. Their current problem was that they did not know the number of thieves who broke through the siege, nor how many thieves were left in the mountains. If there were fewer thieves who broke through the siege, it was very likely that the thieves' army's plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain. After all, if each battalion sent troops to pursue, the defense line set up would naturally be left and right. Once there were still a large number of thieves hidden in the mountains, the entire defense line could not be resisted at all.
Therefore, President Qian could only return to his camp in shame. Anyway, it was Wu Da who had the bastard. Although they were also responsible, they were not too big. If a thief suddenly broke out from the mountain and broke his camp, it would be troublesome. It would be light to get rid of his job and ask for it. Let's save the guy who was having a meal first.
A few days later, the Hubei Governor Zhang Zhensheng, who was stationed in Hankou, received an emergency.
A group of rebels from Kuidong suddenly fled from Xingshan, heading towards Hankou and Hanyang. The specific number is at least 50,000. Now they have left Yichang Prefecture and bypassed Jiangling City. They are about to arrive soon. The number of green camp soldiers in each prefecture is too small to be blocked.
The enemy was discovered in Yichang Prefecture, Jingzhou Prefecture, and Jingmen Prefecture, and local officials also requested reinforcements. Zhang Zhensheng's expression changed drastically. He was a bannerman of the Han army's white flag. He followed Dorgon into the pass in his early years, but the sudden outbreak of the 13th Army in Xingshan went straight to Hankou was enough to shock him.
Zhang Zhensheng's first thought was the Ming army in Wuchang. According to common sense, most of the bandits in Xingshan came from the Dashun army in Shaanxi. If they broke through, they would naturally go northwest to Shaanxi. However, if they were not thinking about meeting with the Ming army in Wuchang, there would be a ghost.
Therefore, Zhang Zhensheng's order was to strengthen the defense of the few navy troops on the river. As long as the thieves could not grab the ship, they could not cross the river. As for the safety of Hankou and Hanyang towns, he was not very worried. He just ordered the green camps of each county to reduce their troops. Nearly 70,000 Qing troops were stationed in Hanyang and Hankou cities respectively to form a horn. It was as solid as a rock. The reinforcements from the court might arrive in half a month. Even if the Ming army in Wuchang wanted to cross the river to support it, it would be not so easy.
The news also arrived in Wuchang through the spies of the Jinyiwei lurking in Jiangbei. The sudden action of the 13th Army of Kuidong also made the people in Wuchang very puzzled. Logically, as the Duke of Linguo enthroned by the Ming Dynasty, Li Laiheng had to inform him about such a large military operation. Even if it was not for himself, it would be okay to ask the Ming army to help him. However, this time, Kuidong did not inform him, and there was no suggestion in advance. He was completely arbitrary, which also made Li Xiao very angry.
Li Xiao's father Li Guo and Li Laiheng had had the experience of fighting side by side when they were in Yunchuan. Both of them also opposed Sun Kewang at the same time. Although they parted ways, it was still good to have personal relationships. Therefore, when contacting each other, Li Xiao always regarded himself as a nephew. Now this Uncle Shi played such tricks, which really annoyed him. The incident happened in a hurry and Wuchang was unable to respond. He could only order the Ming army stationed along the river to strengthen its vigilance, and also ordered the monks of the Fufu Department to speed up the collection of intelligence and clarify the whole story as soon as possible.
Hankou is known as the three towns of Han, located in the northwest of the Yangtze River and north of the Han River, across the Yangtze River and Wuchang on its southeastern side, and Han River faces Hanyang on its south. It is an important bridgehead for Manchus and Han people in the middle of the Yangtze River. Hankou is named at the mouth of the Han River flowing into the Yangtze River. Because the Han River was called Xia Water in ancient times, it was named Xiakou during the Three Kingdoms period.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Hansui became an emerging commercial port, ranking among the four famous towns in the country along with Zhuxian Town, Henan, Foshan Town, Guangdong, and Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, and became the largest port in the country. However, since the rise of the Southern Ming Dynasty, vigorously developing industry and promoting commerce, major commercial ports in Jiangnan have expanded rapidly, leaving Hankou far behind.
After Wuchang was captured by the Ming army, Hankou and Hanyang were quickly set up as military fortresses by the Manchus, stationed large troops and trained military horses hard, and planned to fight against Wuchang at any time. Therefore, Hankou was already full of Green Camps. With the arrival of Green Camps, the trade industry became more prosperous. After all, soldiers and oilmen needed to eat, drink, defecate, and go to kilns to prostitution women. This front-line commercial port actually attracted many merchants due to military tension, so that tens of thousands of people from other places came into the city every day.
However, today, the gates of Hankou City have been closed, and the city walls are filled with green camps with tense atmospheres. All streets and alleys have also posted notices from the government offices, and no one is allowed to take the streets at will. Otherwise, according to military law, the shops along the street will be ordered to close their doors, and the entire Hankou is in an extremely tense atmosphere.
Zhang Zhensheng kept reading the military newspapers of various prefectures. The general of Hubei Green Camp beside him was sitting in a dangerous position. Although his body was hollowed out by wine, he still looked very majestic in his military uniform.
"General Ma, what's the movements in the south?" Zhang Zhensheng suddenly raised his eyes and asked the general.
General Ma's name is Ma Mengchao. Like Zhang Zhensheng, they were both Han army's white flags. The two had a lot of dealings and were very friendly. Therefore, Ma Mengchao was not rigid and said bluntly: "I went to inspect it. Apart from strengthening the guards on the other side of the river, there was nothing unusual, and there seemed to be no sign of large-scale operations."
Zhang Zhensheng was stunned when he heard this. It was wrong. Didn’t the thieves join the Ming army? It was impossible. Zhang Zhensheng rejected this idea. Although there were many thieves, he did not believe that these people could conquer Hankou and Hanyang, and 80% of them would still go to the riverside.
"The defense on the riverside must be strengthened. The Ming army is best at bluffing, real and real. It is originally the way of war, so it is important to pay attention to the movements of the Ming army." Zhang Zhensheng was not afraid of those bandits who did not even prepare weapons. In his heart, the biggest threat was still in the Ming army in Jiangnan.
Chapter completed!